Tourism industry, travel trends, and visitor statistics for Portugal.
Carris stretched the Funicular da Graça's operating window from the 9h-17h evaluation schedule to 7h-20h45 daily on Friday 15 May 2026, two weeks after the seven-month reopening. The 55E moved 3,600+ riders in the first fortnight — 70% occasional users.
Portugal's TVDE platforms posted €808 million in 2025 revenue — up 36% year-on-year — with 36,463 vehicles and 38,339 drivers, 48.7% of whom are foreign-passport holders, mostly Brazilian and Indian.
Two INE prints from this week read the Portuguese tourism cycle from complementary angles. Friday's Q1 2026 hotel destaque put guest arrivals at 5.8 million (+1.5%) , overnight stays at 13.6 million (+1.3%) and accommodation revenue at €1.0 billion...
INE's Q1 2026 tourism destaque puts hotel guests at 5.8 million (+1.5%) and overnight stays at 13.6 million (+1.3%). Total accommodation revenue tops €1 billion (+5.5%), rooms alone €734.5 million (+5.1%). Non-residents carry 68% of stays; Madeira leans on foreign demand for 85.9%.
Portugal's national airport network handled 14.5 million passengers in Q1 2026, up 3.9% YoY. Porto led growth at 8.3%, Lisbon held 54.2% share at 7.9 million, Brazilian routes surged over 20% while French volumes fell almost 12%. Freight slipped 0.3% to 59,981 tonnes.
Uber adds Portugal to the mid-June 2026 launch of Uber Boats by Click&Boat — a five-country, 23-city Mediterranean and Atlantic pilot. Bookings sit inside the Uber app, every hire ships with a professional skipper so no licence is required, Uber One members get a 10% credit.
PRO.VAR has rejected BdP Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira's five-indicator no-crisis reading of the restaurant sector, arguing the BdP aggregate masks the collapse of traditional restaurants — a debate sharpened by Publico's May 10 deep dive on the segment's structural fragility.
